half-tearful

Knowing that many problems beset the high Priest, he summoned lXbalanque, threw his arms about the old man, and cried in a half-tearful voice, 'Ixbalanque, you are going to get your godV The priest struggled to free himself from the embrace and asked:

Mexico Michener, James 1992

It's a shame I can't come to America with you, 'said Alison, to Sadie, half-tearful at the thought of saying good-bye to her friend.

Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

She raised her head from his knees and offered him -- of her own free will -- her sweet lips, and then clung to him with a half-tearful, maidenly shame.

Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

It was ten months ago that they had said a half-tearful, half-laughing good-bye to each other on the windy, sunny pier at Hoboken.

Four Days The Story of a War Marriage Hetty Hemenway

She had rolled in somehow over the side, and sat soaked and heavy, half-laughing and half-tearful, right at his feet.

The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Charlotte, flushed and half-tearful, finished speaking, a little glimmer of fun came into Worth's grey eyes, and her dimple was very pronounced as she said,

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 1908

Give a man one young child to take care of for one day, and when you return to him you find a semi-imbecile, half-tearful creature.

Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906

There was a smiling, half-tearful look in her eyes -- those expressive eyes which, but a moment before, had burnt with a vengeful fire -- as she asked the question.

The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

"Laurence!" said Mary Virginia, with a tremulous, half-tearful laugh,

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

She wished with all her ardent little soul that she had not been so careless, and presently, after a serious, half-tearful study of herself in the glass, she went away to find a remedy.

The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1897